SCRUB PUB: Jason Kubel - OF, Min
Written by Xach on June 27, 2006
Okay kids, following a lengthy hiatus, I'm ready to write roto again. In the coming weeks we'll see what we can get out of the other 'Gods, but in any case I'm back for good. Instead of trying to bring you one or two meaty articles a week, my new goal is to blog it up for y'all. Sure, you'll still see some articles from me, but beyond that you'll have a daily dose of blog items to pass the time. One such item is . . .
Scrub Pub
- Scrub, n. (skrub) A player who sucks; offer him in trade and get the gas face from your friendly neighborhood dickhead, erm, I mean GM.
Pub, n. (pub) Short for publicity.
Jason Kubel - of, min
Drafted in 2000 by the Twins, he apparently murdered AA and AAA pitching in 2004 to the tune of .352 and 26 homers. He received a 60 at-bat cup of coffee with the Major League club for his efforts and then went on to the Fall league where he promptly hurt himself. Suffering major ligament damage and who-knows-what-all-else, Kubel's knee was fucked and has kept him out of baseball until 2006.
Dude didn't appear on my fantasy radar until I was doing my preparations for this year's draft. I saw some mention of him as a deep sleeper (just tried to find the initial blurb I saw, but I can't find it on any of the sites I tend to frequent, so to hell with it) and decided to just keep an eye on the guy. He proceeded to have a terrific spring and the Twinkies put him in Cuddyer's outfield spot. Admittedly, I got over-excited about a real long-shot of a guy and actually picked up Kubel for about two days in April. But he never stepped on the field for my fantasy squad... until last week.
The one-time hitting prospect went crazy nuts in June. Through today, he's hitting .338 with 5 homers in 74 June at-bats. Ummm, that's pretty good.
No clue if he'll keep it up, but the Twins seem to like the guy and he's been fine for me so far.
Okay, I'm gonna go try and trade him to Father Time for shitty, no-good, washed-up Randy Johnson now. And that, folks, is why we call it Scrub Pub.
Keep your eyes glued to Rotogods.com for more crap to read on the shitter and also for some organizational and site design changes in the not-too-distant future. . . .
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